IMPORTANT ORGANIZATION AND THEIR HEADQUARTERS

IMPORTANT ORGANIZATION AND THEIR HEADQUARTERS

 

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Name	About
WHO	Formation-7 April 1948; 72 years ago Type-United Nations specialised agency Headquarters-Geneva, Switzerland Director-General-Tedros Adhanom Deputy Director-General- 1. Soumya Swaminathan  2. Jane Ellison
UNESCO	Formation-4 November 1945. Type-United Nations specialised agency Headquarters-Paris, France Director-General-Audrey Azoulay
UNO	UN Charter signed- 26 June 1945 Charter entered into force- 24 October 1945 Headquarters-760 United Nations Plaza New York City (international territory) Official languages-Arabic, Chinese- English, French, Russian, Spanish. Type- Intergovernmental organization Membership- 193 member states 2 observer states Secretary‑General- António Guterres Deputy Secretary-General-Amina J. Mohammed General Assembly President-Tijjani Muhammad-Bande Economic and Social Council President-Mona Juul Security Council President-Dang Dinh Quy

 

 

 

  WHO

 (WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION )

 

• Head (Director General): Tedros Adhanom.
• Deputy Director-General- 1. Soumya Swaminathan, 2.Jane Ellison.
• Parent organization: United Nations Economic and Social Council.

 

WHO serves as a forum for summits and discussions on health issues. WHO also provides technical assistance, health standards and guidelines, collects data on global health issues through the World Health Survey. World Health Report, provides expert assessments of global health topics and health statistics on all nations.

• WHO- Established by the constitution on 7 April 1948 which is commemorated as World Health Day.
• Members of the WHO are grouped according to regional distribution (194 Member States).
• Motto : “THE ATTAINMENT BY ALL PEOPLES OF THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE LEVEL OF HEALTH”.
• Six semi-autonomous regional offices and 1950 field offices worldwide.

Six Autonomous Regional Offices:

•  Africa
• America
• South-east-Asia
• Europe.
• Eastern Mediterranean
• Western Pacific.

UNESCO

UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is an agency of the United Nation. The motto "the building of peace, the eradication of poverty, sustainable development and intercultural dialogue through education, the sciences, culture, communication and information”.

It pursues its objectives through five major program areas: education, natural sciences, social/human sciences, culture and communication/information.

UNESCO assists in translating and disseminating world literature, establishing international cooperation agreements to secure "World Heritage Sites" of cultural and natural importance, preserving human rights, and bridging the worldwide digital divide.

After the signing of the Atlantic Charter and the Declaration of the United Nations, the Conference of Allied Ministers of Education (CAME) began meetings in London which continued from 16 November 1942 to 5 December 1945. On 30 October 1943, the necessity for an international organization was expressed in the Moscow The declaration, agreed upon by China, the United Kingdom, the United States and the USSR.

The first General Conference took place from 19 November to 10 December 1946 and elected Dr Julian Huxley to Director-General. The Constitution was amended in November 1954.

In the field of communication, the "free flow of ideas by word and image" has been in UNESCO's constitution from its beginnings, following the experience of the Second World War when control of information was a factor in indoctrinating populations for aggression.

UNESCO started organizing training and education for journalists in the 1950s.In response to calls for a "New World Information and Communication Order" in the late 1970s, UNESCO established the International Commission for the Study of Communication Problems.

• South Africa rejoined the organization in 1994 under the leadership of Nelson Mandela.
• UNESCO has 193 member states and 11 associate members. Based in Paris, France.
• UNESCO admitted Palestine as a member in 2011.
• UNESCO implements its activities through the five program areas: education, natural sciences, social and human sciences, culture, and communication and information.
• Education: UNESCO supports research in comparative education, and provide expertise and fosters partnerships to strengthen national educational leadership and the capacity of countries to offer quality education for all. This includes the
• UNESCO Chairs, an international network of 644 UNESCO Chairs, involving over 770 institutions in 126 countries
• Environmental Conservation Organization
• Convention against Discrimination in Education adopted in 1960
• Organization of the International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA) in an interval of 12 years
• Publication of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report
• Publication of the Four Pillars of Learning seminal document
• UNESCO ASPNet, an international network of 8,000 schools in 170 countries
• UNESCO does not accredit institutions of higher learning.
• No elected UNESCO Director-General from Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central and North Asia, Middle East, North Africa, East Africa, Central Africa, South Africa, Australia-Oceania, and South America since its inception.
• The Directors-General of UNESCO came from West Europe (5), Central America (1), North America (2), West Africa (1), East Asia (1), and East Europe (1).

 

  The list of the Directors-General of UNESCO

 

Julian Huxley	United Kingdom  -1946–48
Jaime Torres Bodet	Mexico -1948–52
John Wilkinson Taylor	United States- 1952–53 (acting)
Luther Evans	United States-1953–58
Vittorino Veronese	Italy-1958–61
René Maheu	France  -1961–74; acting 1961
Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow	Senegal -1974–87
Federico Mayor Zaragoza	Spain-1987–99
Koïchiro Matsuura	Japan-1999–2009
Irina Bokova	Bulgaria-2009–2017
Audrey Azoulay	France-2017–present

 

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